Woodard v. State

Wilbur Woodard was convicted of assault with intent to murder, with a recommendation that he be punished as for a misdemeanor, which recommendation the judge followed, and gave defendant the alternative of paying $100 including the cost, or serving 10 months at the State farm. His motion for new trial was overruled, and he excepted.

1. The evidence for the State was in effect as follows: Several persons, including Rudolph Morgan (the person alleged to have been shot), were in an oak ridge cutting wood, when the defendant Wilbur Woodard came up with a single-barrel shotgun, saying he was…